Well, the big weekend news from the Anglican front was the vote by two parishes in Truro and Falls Church, Virginia – two large, historic and flourishing churches – to break from the ECUSA and associate themselves with the Nigerian province. This is really such an interesting story for all of us, Anglican or not,…

Later this week… The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams; Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian and the Free Churches Moderator, the Reverend David Coffey are undertaking an Advent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. There will some sort of online…

From the Charlote (NC) paper, the story of a home for persons with disabilities in Belmont (home of Belmont Abbey College).Here’s the facility’s website and the story of its origins: Doctors did not expect the baby girl to live long beyond her December 20, 1955, birth. She was born medically fragile, with multiple disabilities. If…

At our historically German-ethnic parish, the priest wore rose vestments (of the more pinkish hue). I finally saw that while there is no actual Advent wreath (which, of course, is not required by anyone or anything anyway), there are four candles arranged on stands in the sanctuary in a sort of tasteful circular setting. (By…

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